auntship

noun

Etymology

From aunt + -ship.

  1. derived from amita
  2. derived from ante
  3. derived from aunte
  4. inherited from aunte
  5. suffixed as auntship — “aunt + ship

Definitions

  1. The status of being an aunt.

    • This was a Mrs Archer, to whom I was taught to pay homage, under the appellation of Aunt Archer; the auntship consisting in that her husband had had for a first wife a sister of my grandmother.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA